[Kobi]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

I hope the ACLU goes after them like a rabid animal on steroids and sets a Stare Decisis (a legal precedent) that not even the Supreme Court of the United States can ignore or set aside.

I get so upset over the criminal mindset of the banking and financial industry, that will do anything at the expense to people who are marginalized by institutions, who will steal for profit! That alone, in my opinion, is a core issue of the national demise over our current (present) and future financial woes; not to mention corporate law and how these sets of law are loosely designed at holding these kinds of powers accountable and leaving all sectors of the public without a way to seek full remedy under constitutional provisions, designed to meet redress in specific ways, so that red-lining any population is prosecutable to the high heavens and with formidable punishment, should this kind of crime transpire on any watch in America.

And, on top of that, a presidential contender (Romney) is probably one of the biggest abusers and users of profit gained under loosely written law pertaining to both market industrial giants (monsters): Corporate institutional thievery masked as law-abiding ways for making a profit.

To your thoughts I would add.....remember, after the crash of 1929, Congress put a boatload of rules and regulations in place to stop the banking industry from gambling with peoples money ever again. These have been systematically dismantled since the Reagan era leading to more and more risky behavior and totally incomprehensible products in the name of profit.

Unfortunately, many many everyday people, not just the top 1% and corporations, made a lot of money during this period. It seems once people, in general, get a taste of easy wealth using investment instruments that are lacking in logic and common sense, it is hard to reign in their appetite for risk and its potential rewards.

We need people with gonads to deal with the systemic problem of greed in this country. In the current hierarchy of power, I'm not sure such people exist anymore.